October 31, 2012

"It's easier to laugh about it than to think about how State House coverage is dying," said Daniel Moraff, a Brown student and "aspiring comedy writer," whom some fools denounced as an idiot for saying things like "I don't really believe there's a hurricane... I know the government wants us to think that...."

31 comments:

So a bad reporter interviews a bad wanna be comedian and its bad. The worst part is it didn't sound all that unusual. It's pretty hard to make a parody of the ridiculousness of everyday life in the media.What would be really good is a good report done by a good reporter asking good questions of real people, but that won't happen for a number of reasons, the most important one being real people are at work getting real things done.

Join me in not wondering whether Brown student and aspiring comedy writer Daniel Moraff has any concerns about why Obama has to go thousands of miles from DC and sit down with the anchor from Channel 9 in Denver before he's confronted with direct questions and a tense interview.

Channel 9 in Denver before he's confronted with direct questions and a tense interview.

As I understand it, the interviewer said the question arose from tweets and emails to the station in response to the station's question, "what should we ask the president when he gets here?" I got the impression the reporter was a bit embarrassed to ask and to press but for many viewers asking that same question.

Where would news producers get the absurd idea that a bunch of people tuning in with bated breath to watch a massive hurricane wreck a large city would respond positively to sensationalism? Boy are they stupid.

As far as the idiot in the clip goes: Poor comedy made worse by a poor performance. Dumb approach to critique media sensationalism. The reporter wasn't being sensational. She was asking passers-by the only questions that passers-by have the capacity to answer: what do you think and how do you feel?

Nobody cares about the State House. Everyone cares about the hurricane. Scratch that. Daniel Moraff cares about the State House. Which means you should care, too. What he thinks is true; he will critique what is not true until people come around and believe as he believes. What kind of Brown-educated liberal would he be if that weren't the case? And if TV stations can't make payroll because nobody is tuning in to listen to the State House minutes, well then we'll just have to subsidize the stations with taxpayer monies. Liberalism. It's your choice: free-market sensationalism or taxpayer-subsidized boredom.

A lot of rain and a high tide, but we've gotten more wind from elephant farts around here. Funny how all this happens somewhere else and we're supposed to believe it's real. Reminds me of the supposed perpetual war in Orwell's "1984"